Mary Milles

Not the same as Mary Browne

Childen of Elizabeth Manners and John Manners:

9. Mary Savage, born 1563, married 1) Sir Richard Milles of Hampshire (married about 1585 2) Thomas Wroughton (married 1616)

Disambiguation

• Mary Savage, born after 1539 and before 1557, daughter of Francis Savage; wife of John Washbourne.[1]
• Mary Savage, wife of Thomas Hitchcock, who is shown as being the same person as this Mary in the Visitation of Wiltshire 1623 and who died in Preshute in 1570 leaving a will.

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Savage-315

Mary Savage was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

This profile is part of the Savage Name Study.

Mary Savage was the daughter of Sir John Savage of Rocksavage and his first wife, Elizabeth Manners, the daughter of Sir Thomas Manners, the Earl of Rutland. Mary was born 1563, and married to Sir Richard Milles in Hampshire.[2]

Mary is mentioned as his daughter "Marie Milles" in the Will of John Savage, probated 1598.[3] She had married Richard Milles ca 1585, according to the epitaph on his tomb (he died in 1613 and they had "lived happily" together 28 years).[4]

After Richard's death in 1613, Mary married Thomas Wroughton. He must have been much younger than she, as her first marriage took place about 1585, according to the monument she had erected for her first husband. Even if she was only 16 when she married the first time, that would give her a birth date of circa 1569. Thomas was born in 1591 according to the Visitation pedigree.

She is entombed in the church of St. Boniface in Nursling in a monument with Richard known as the "Mills Memorial." (see under Richard Milles)

"Thomas and Alice had issue one son called Richard and several daughters. As Richard was 'very sickly in his youth,' George was often minded to settle the reversion of his lands after his death on his younger brother John in fee-tail, so as to continue the same in his own name, but refrained from doing so on account of the former settlement. (fn. 23) On the death of George the estate therefore passed to Richard, who some time afterwards married Mary daughter of Sir John Savage. 'He used his sisters very kindly oftentimes affirming that the possibility of his lands would be a preferment for them in marriage he having no issue nor likely to have any,' and although his wife Mary often entreated him to disinherit his sisters he steadfastly refused, saying that the lands should descend to them in accordance with the wish of his uncle. However, Mary prevailed upon him to settle a part of his estate upon her for life, although he persisted in his determination of settling the greater part upon his sisters. Shortly afterwards 'he grew weak both in body and mind by reason of a dread palsey which he had,' and while in this state his wife Mary and her nephew Sir Thomas Savage, who waited upon him and 'mynistered phisicke' to him during his long illness, seemingly gained complete ascendancy over him, so much so that he finally conveyed the greater part of his estates to Mary about 1609, (fn. 24) and by his will left only £300 to his sisters, Anne the wife of Thomas Bilson, Alice the wife of Sir John Bingham, Elizabeth Collnett, and Bridget the wife of Thomas Barnes. (fn. 25) After her husband's death in 1613 (fn. 26) Mary used 'faier words' to her husband's sisters, but nevertheless previous to her marriage with Thomas Wroughton in 1616 executed a deed granting the reversion of her property to her nephew. (fn. 27) The sisters of Richard appealed to the Court of Chancery, but the case was dismissed in 1619. (fn. 28) Sir Thomas, afterwards Viscount Savage, who had succeeded to Nursling on the death of his aunt in 1623, (fn. 29) sold the manor to Sir Thomas Cornwallis, groom porter to James I, John Scrivener, and others in December, 1624, (fn. 30) and made the first conveyance by fine in the spring of 1625. (fn. 31)"[5]

Savage of Rock Savage, (Vis. of Cheshire, 1613)

Sources

1. Nina Green, THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES PROB 11/40/349, The Oxford Authorship Site, 2013,http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-40-349.pdf, accessed 30 June 2015
2. Thomas Helsby, Esq, ed., "Containing the Introduction and Prolegomena, the county of the city of Chester and Bucklow Hundred", The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester; Compiled from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian MSS, Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities, 2nd Edition, Comp. George Ormerod, Esq, LLD, FRS & FSA, I, (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882), pp.716.
3. FILE - [no title] - ref. DCH/E/310 - date: 1597, 2. Dec
4. See tomb in St. Boniface church, Nursling
5. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol3/pp433-439